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Daniel Schubert

Daniel Schubert

Daniel Schubert is a Vancouver-based filmmaker whose obsession with movies started when he commandeered the family VHS player at the age of two. Daniel has gone on to write, produce and direct documentary series for broadcasters including National Geographic, CBC, UKTV, Smithsonian Channel, and History Television. Daniel attended the Capilano University School of Motion Picture Arts in Vancouver and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, where he learned comedy writing and improvisation.

  • Martha
    Martha
    Daniel Schubert 2020 21 min
    Even at a frail 90, Martha Katz has an impish energy that remains undiminished. She chides grandson-filmmaker Daniel Schubert over his choice of shirt during a visit to her Los Angeles home, but there’s trauma beneath the humour. At 14, Martha and her family were torn from their village in Czechoslovakia and shipped to Auschwitz. A visit to a Holocaust museum ignites painful memories, including a haunting personal encounter with one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious figures. For Martha, however, the emphasis is on a tough but rewarding postwar life in Winnipeg, which she fondly recalls in this warm, intimate portrait of an unrelenting survivor.

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